RFT Members America Recycles Day 2011!
Thank you to all who participated.
The Winner is:
Cynthia B. of Leon County, FL
I will be celebrating America Recycles Day by teaching my children the importance of recycling. We will also be attending an electronic recycling event in our community.
I plan to send out an “America Recycles Day Special Edition” newsletter to my e-newsletter list.
Okaloosa County will celebrate America Recycles Day at the Santa Rosa Mall Food Court in Mary Esther on November 19 from 10 am to 3 pm. We are asking businesses and organizations that have products or services consistent with recycling, environmental conservation, or sustainability to join us on the Saturday before Black Friday to promote environmental awareness. Booths are $50.
The event is sponsored by Okaloosa County, the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber’s Green Task Force, Cumulus Radio, and the Santa Rosa Mall. Cumulus Radio will be on hand conducting a radio remote and aluminum cans will be collected as a fund raiser for Fisher House http://www.fisherhouse.org/. We will also invite mall shoppers to sign an “I Recycle” pledge card and receive a free “I Recycle” ARD tote bag (see below) made from 100% PET. Additionally, each pledge card will be entered into a drawing to receive an Earth Machine backyard composter or a SYSTERN rain barrel, each valued at over a $100.
Additionally, Okaloosa County will offer residents FREE drop-off of household hazardous waste at its HHW facility on Ready Ave in Fort Walton Beach on November 19 from 7 am – 2 pm. Pledge cards will also be taken there and entered into the drawing.
District schools are participating in the ARD school pledge contest.
Leon County Solid Waste and Recycling will be celebrating ARD on November 19, 2011 with and open house, 5K trash dash, 1 mile fun run, exhibits, children's activities, drawings for a free recycling bin and free rain barrel, live music and food. Visit: http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/Recycling/Events.asp for more information.
An America Recycles Day Proclamation will be read at the Commissioners Meeting on November 15th. We will be taking pledges on November 19th and people will be signing one of our BIG GREEN RECYCLE BINS. We will be collecting shoes, eyeglasses, sunglasses, aluminum cans for various charities. We will be holding a book swap. We will have the BAG MONSTER and RHONDA RENEE RECYCLES on site.
Hello! My name is Elizabeth L. I am planning a local event for my division, in honor of America Recycles Day. It is called Orange County Recycles Day and we will be hosting it at our Recycled Materials Processing Facility at the Orange County Landfill on November 12, 2011. At the event there will be exhibits, music and entertainment (including a walk around magic show and a dance group), children’s games and prizes, clowns and face painting, refreshments, a truck display, and landfill tours. A paper shredding company will be on site as well to collect paper from guests to shred and recycle.
Glenda A. and Keep Charlotte Beautiful will be conducting recycling presentations at elementary schools for ARD. We will also be collecting gently loved books for children through the month of Nov. with a special emphasis on ARD. The books will be donated to food banks and homeless shelters to distribute during the holiday season.
We are holding 3 Community Cleanup Events, 3 School Recycling Competitions, a District wide pledge drive in the schools, and we are hoping to announce a Master Recycler program in our community by Nov 15th…BOCC approval pending! Also doing several school presentations and encouraged teachers to do their own by creating an online guide to the BEST school activities!
Contact RFT for more information.